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He who improvises can never make a perfect line of poetry.

— Titian A Dictionary of Art and Artists (1959)

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It is not bright colors but good drawing that makes figures beautiful.

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality.

T. S. Eliot Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)

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